The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-07-22
WASHINGTON.

Commissioner Sparks has given an opinion
that married women cannot purchase govern.
ment land.
The president. Secretary Whitney, Col.
Lamont and others took a yacht Saturday
afternoon on the Patomac.
1t Is said that Mr.. Chandler of New Hamu-
shire, will move for an investigation of the
navy department next winter.
On Monday the commissioners Of Beadle
county, Dakota, ordered q vote taken on local
option at the annaal election In November.
An investigation shows that Oscar j. Har.
vey, a treasury clerk who forged claims for
horses lost by army officers during the war,
realized altogether 81, 200.
The president has formally declined the in
vitation to attend the G. A. r. encampment
at st. Louis in September, also announcing
that he will not visit the west at all this year.
A valuable collection, numbering more
than 10000 objects, illustrating tie habits
and accomplishments Of prehistoric men in
western Europe, was Opened to public exhibi-
tion in the Smithsonian institute Thursday.
They were gathered during Eve years resi-
dence abroad by Thomas Wilson, ex-consul to
Nice, and by his wife.
Oscar j. Harvey, chief of the horse claims
dtsvision Of the third auditors Office, treasury
department, has been found guilty of defraud.
ing the government, securing something like
10000. on forged clatms, which had been ad-
justed. A number Of Others, representing
several thousand dollars, not having been adj
justed, were disclosed, and Harvey was ar.
rested on Thursday.
The treasurer of the United States will soon
be able to supply banks and individuals with
the small notes that are desired. On the 10th
inst, at the bureau Of printing and engrav-
ing, the full delivery of 90 600 sheets daily will
begin,aud wili::continue throughout the year If
necessary. The treasurer has ordered of the
bureau for July each day s92, 900 in 81 and e
notes. How far this will gotoward supplying
the demand remains to be seen.
The postmaster-general has written a letter
to a clerk in the sixth division who INQUIRED
II the convention Of postal clerks in that
division ito cultivate fraternity, afford chiefs
an opportunity of meeting and hearing thu.
working force, and clerks an opportunity of
making known to the department their need
aud securing consideration of the more eoutr.
BILE grading Of railway postal lines," would
meet the approval of the department. Mr..
Villas replies at some length to the effect that
"such a convention, in his judgment, is worse
than valueless and unnecessary" and adds
that there is not only no occasion for any
such convention, but 1t is forbidden by SOU, d
principles.
The supreme court Of the District of Co
lumbir. setting as a court of custer in the
case of the United States in general term,
Monday sustained the demurrer of the gov
eminent and. awarded JUDGMENT against
John N. Oliver, justice Of the peace, who re.
sisted the right Of the president TO remove
him and claimed that he could be displaced
from his Office only by the district supreme
court. The court, in a opinion, delivered by
Chief Justice Bingham, holdsitnat the power,
TO remove q Justice Of the peace residedfn tn,
president alone, up to the time Of the passage
of the organic actby the district court March,
1868, and that this act did not take away the
president's power Of removal, but merely
conferred on the court q concurrent power
Of removal With the president.